It's not often that I come across a new word (forgive me if this sounds like bragging, but it is more to do with my choice of reading material rather than my 'extensive' vocabulary), so when I do find a new word it's like coming across an antique at a car boot sale.
The word I learnt yesterday was esurient, found on page 103 in Kevin Hearne's novel 'Hounded' (published by Orbit in 2011): "I felt completely restored, albeit dreadfully thirsty and a bit esurient".
Esurient is an archiac expression that means hungry (appropriately used in the novel as the character is an immortal Druid) and comes from the Latin esurire and esuriens, to hunger. It's so archiac, that the word does not appear in many dictionaries. I had quite a hunt to find it's meaning.
So, amaze your friends and family. Next time someone asks you, "Are you hungry?", you can reply "Yes, I'm quite esurient", and watch their faces as they try to work out what you just said...
Sources:
The Concise Oxford Dicitonary of Current English (1995), Clarendon Press.
Hearne, Kevin (2011) Hounded, Orbit.
Juliana
